諂 — Chinese character
諂
chǎn
to flatter, to cajole; toady, yes-man
- Pinyin
- chǎn
- Radical
- 149 ⾔ (Speech)
- Strokes
- 15
- Components
- 言 臽
- Formation
- pictophonetic — speech; meaning component 言; sound component 臽
- Simplified
- 谄
- Japanese
- 諂 as a kanji
諂 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 3 · Mencius 3 · Zhuangzi 3
- Analects 1.15
- Analects 2.24
- Analects 3.18
- Mencius 3B.7
- Mencius 6B.13
- Zhuangzi The Universe
- Zhuangzi Autumn Floods
- Zhuangzi The Old Fisherman
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.